Top 10 Security Questions to Ask Before Outsourcing Any IT - Slide 11

What is my ability to get out of the contract?

Vendors naturally try to lock clients in to long-term, five-year-plus engagements. Until that vendor has demonstrated that it treats your data security and protecting your business as mission critical, long-term contracts are higher risk.

With IT organizations looking everywhere to cut costs, one area that gets a lot of attention is outsourcing. But just as there are security concerns with internal IT, so too are there security issues with external IT service providers. Here are 10 tough questions that IT organizations should be asking about their IT service providers.

To protect the company from those insiders who abuse their privileged access and from hackers with stolen credentials, many companies are turning to a privileged access management (PAM) solution. ... More >>